NATIONAL SCIENCE WEEK

Last week we celebrated ‘National Science Week.’

We hope all the students and families enjoyed going a little ‘Science Mad’!!!

A BIG thank you to all the families that sent their video and photos to share with the St James Community.

Keep your eyes on the Pareent Portal in the coming days to see all the fun!!!!!!

NATIONAL eSMART WEEK

This year our school has registered to take part in National eSmart Week.

eSmart is an initiative of the Alannah & Madeline Foundation and is all about building supportive and connected social environments both on and offline.

This year’s National eSmart Week theme is Connecting Safely.

The week from 6-12 September celebrates the work schools have done to connect safely. Please keep an eye out over the coming week for more details about events and activities the students' families can get involved in.

This information will be shared through social media, Parent Portal and weekly level letters.

Mrs Emma Herbert

FOUNDATION

In Foundation, we have been learning about Poetry.

We are such superstar poets who have powerful knowledge about rhyming words, onomatopoeia, synonyms, adjectives and lots of features you may find in a poem.

Over the past two weeks we have been learning to write different types of poems and we are especially amazing at rhyming, cinquain and acrostic poems.

We will sign a copy of our poems when we are famous poets so keep a copy safe.

Charlie E

Dog

Cute, fluffy

Playing, running.jumping

Going to the park

Fun!

Leopard

Large animal

Eating meat

Orange

Panting after running sometimes

Angry

Run fast

Dots on their fur

Madeline I

Bunny

Fluffy, cute

Jumping, sleeping,eating

They jump up high

Underground

Bunnies are cute

Underground

Naughty sometimes

Nice to hold

Yippity hop!

Ice cream

Sweet, yummy

licking,eating , tasting

Eating strawberry ice- cream

Delicious

Meg M

I have a ball and I kick it off the wall.

Boing! Boing!

I will go to bed soon and look at the moon.

Zzzzzzzzz! Zzzzzzz!

Zebra

Stripey, big

Drinking, running, eating

He is very happy

Zoo

Beach

Fun, relaxing

Playing, swimming, running

Happy, excited and tired

Sand

Lacie S

Chirp! Chirp! Chirp!

Went to the rainbow bird.

The bird heard a cat and a bat.

Meow!

They were very fat and sat on a mat.

The cocoon made a tune on the cartoon,

Boon! Boon! Went to the tune.

Jed and Ned went to see the tune on the moon in June.

Lion

Licking its cubs

In the night they hunt

On the rocks noticing when there's food

Now bed

Bears

Big body

Eyes that glow

Ate fish

Rest while hibernating

sleep

Unicorn

Colourful, fluffy,

Trotting, feeding, flying

Happy with her mane

Magical

Shark

Big, scary

Eating , swimming, hunting

Catching its sad prey

fish

Clown fish

Stripey, small

Swimming, hiding, camouflaging

Scared from the shark

ocean

Scarlett C

Snakes

The snake likes to hiss!

The chick likes to cluck!

The cow likes to moo!

And quack said the duck!

Octopus

Orange and slimy

Wiggley, swimming, squirting

Love squirting ink

Lives in the sea

Swan

White, long neck

Swimming, building nests,

Love being together

Live near water

Unicorn

Pretty, sparkly

Magical, playful, flying

Eat sparkles

Live on rainbows

Mermaids

Magical, mythical

Enchanted

Rainbow tail

Moves through water

Always beautiful

In the sea she lives

Dives under water

Max I

Poor Old Fred

Fred banged his head under the paper bark tree.

He howled at the moon and swallowed a bee.

Buzz! Buzz!

The bee was was toxic and 1, 2, 3

Poor old Fred is no longer with me.

Spring Time

Colour, bloom

Bare foot, active, free

Hatching, buzzing, birthday

Dragon

Make believe, carnivore

fierce, flys, fights

Breathes fire

Fairy tales

Jack W

Zoom! Zoom!

I ran through the gate.

Toot! Toot!

Went the bus.

I was running very late.

Elephant

Enormous

Long trunk

Ears flapping

Playing in the water

Huge body

Animal

Noisy like a trumpet

Tusks made of bone

Winter

Stormy, windy

raining,snowing, hailing

Staying warm by the fire

Cold

Cheetah

Fast, sneaky

Watching, running,hunting

Leaping through the long grass

Cat

Annie S

MyBlack Cat

Meow! Meow!

My black cat.

Poireau is his name.

He sleeps all day on our front door mat.

He loves to play cat games.

Winter

Cold, rainy

Snowing,Skiing, playing,

Making a silly snowman

Chilly

Spring

Fresh, green

Growing, blooming,smiling

Rolling in the green grass

Happy

Annie

Anna’s friend

Nice

Never says to to ice cream

Ice cream

Enjoys monkey bars

Cat

Black, furry

Purring, sleeping , eating

Meowing at my friend

Purr!!

Brushing my hair

Brush brush brush my hair,

It always makes me shake.

Ihate the crunchy tangled sound,

I’d rather be a snake.

Charlie F

The little cat said Meow

When we went down the road.

He jumped into a puddle where he saw a big fat toad.

He said Meow, meow, meow what are you doing here?

The toad said to the cat buddy I live here.

Ribbit! Ribbit!

Tiger

Sly, Wild

Sneaking, growling, running

Stripes are hiding tiger

Jungle

Dragons

Dangerous

Really big

A bit scary

Ginormous

Only in stories

Nasty

Autumn

Colourful, Windy

Looking, running, jumping

Playing in the leaves

Changing

Hudson K

Zoom! Zoom!

Hudson runs fast.

Win! Win!

Hudson does not come last.

Hooray, Hooray,

Huddy did his best.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

It’s time for a rest

Lion

Loud, fluffy

Roaring,running, digging

Leap, climb

Land

Snow

White, cold

Skiing, moving, jumping

Happy with my family

Fun!

Footy

Fun

Outside

Over fence

Tippa

Yes!! Bombers are kicking a goal!

Hope M

Bunny

Fluffy, cute

Hopping, running, eating

They like eating carrots

Live in tunnels

Summer

Hot, sunny

Playing, swimming, digging

Playing in the sea

Swimming

Fish

Fishing

In the sea

Swimming

Happy

Sebastian C

Choo! Choo !

Went the train

The Choo choo did not

come from the plane.

Tiger

Yellow, black

Hunting, prowling, running

Tigers are strong

Tiger land

Lila D

Oink!Oink!

went the big fat pig.

She was happy to wear her pink curly wig.

Bounce! Bounce!

Goes the ball as it hits against the big brick wall.

Cooper

Hairy, Black

Barking, Playing, loving

My best animal friend

Dog

Shark

Scary

Have sharp teeth

Angry

Really hungry

Keep on swimming

Rabbit

Fluffy, small

Hopping, eating,digging

They eat crunchy carrots

paddock

Elly K

A cat sat on a mat and said Meow!

Then he ate a rat that said squeak squeak!

Animals

On top of a mountain,

Or under the sea,

There are so many places,

Where creatures can be.

Bunny

Fluffy, cute

Looking, jumping, sleeping

She is eating carrot

Bunny Hole

Duck

Diving for fish

Underwater catching food

Colourful

Kind

Dolly B

Crunch! Crunch!

The chips are in the bag.

When they are all gone,

It makes me sad.

Twilight

Twilight is a unicorn

Wanders for rainbows

Is able to fly

Loves her friends

Is a princess

Got a pet dragon

Has a brother

Their magical

Jack M

There once was sneaky frog called Fred

Who loved to pretend he was dead

He fell fast asleep

And his friends started to weep

And he thought it was really funny

Dog goes woof

Cat goes meow

Bird goes tweet

And mouse goes squeak

Cow goes moo

Frog goes croak

And the elephant goes toot

Tiger

Terrifying and frightening

I am the king of the jungle

Grrrrr !Watch out

Eat you up,

Roar, here me roar!!

Ducks say quack

And fish go blub

And the seal goes ow ow ow

But there’s one sound that no one no knows...

What does the fox say???

Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding ge-ring ding ding ding da ding da ding

Wa pa pa pa pa pow wa pa pa pa pow

Hatee hatee hatee Ho

Hatee hatee Hattie Ho

Panther

Black, sharp

Creeping, deadly, leaping

Ready to kill animals

Fierce

Tai N

I play on the beach in the sand and I hear the lobster say

Grrrrrrrrrrr to scare me and I hold it in my hand.

I went to Bayside to see a music band.

I see a shark and it tries to bite my hand.

A dog barked at the shark.

Woof! Woof!

The shark jumped on the land.

I went swimming with the fish and there was a whale that squished me.

Grrrrrrrr! Grrrrrr!

I lift it up but it's too heavy.

My Dad helps me get unsquashed safely.

Possum

Cheeky, black

Climbing, crawling, hiding

Eating all the beautiful plants

Bush!

Omelette

Tasty, cheesy

Smelling,cutting, eating

Munching on delicious eggs

Breakfast

Ruby M-L

Penguins

Swimming, waddling, dancing

They are wriggling about

Ice

Pretzels

Salty, crunchy

Crunching,eating, licking

Eating pretzels for lunch

Dry!

Bobby C

Pool

Blue, wet

Swimming, playing, relaxing

Jumping in the water

Fun!

Gold Fish

Gold skin

Old

Long tail

Dark eyes

Fat fish

Incy wincy

Salty water

Huge

Martina C

Bear

Brown

Eating fish

Angry and scary

Real big

BLACKBERRIES STORY

Annie retelling the story Blackberries. Today our challenge was to bring the story to life and that is exactly what they did . Well done Annie and Jack.

COUNTING

This week in Prep we have been learning to skip count and we decided that today we would count in pairs (by twos). Hudson, Lyla and Lacie did such an amazing job counting with no number chart!! Wow!

What super stars?

Will they put all the shoes back in the place they found them?

So impressive!

WORD OF THE WEEK

This week our word of the week is car. We have been learning about the 'ar' digraph in car when two letters make one sound. We decided to create yummy treats and lego creation! Using onomatopoeia we brought our cars to life making all the sounds that they would make. chugga chugga, beep beep, Vroom vroom!!

Scarlett , Jack , Dolly and Charlie E's creations

Miss Aoife Tierney

Scholastic Book Club Orders

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